Back in the early 90's the coffee craze began and you could not spit without hitting a new espresso bar. Within 10 years most of those places closed and big corporate coffee apparently won the day. Could this be the return of the mom and pop (most likely one of their kids) coffee? Has Starbucks finally lost it's "cool" factor amongst the iPhone set?

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